We’ve been updating you about the A5 untethered jailbreak for a long time and finally the time has come again when we don’t have to. Yes, folks, your wait is finally over. The A5 untethered jailbreak is out!

The tool to jailbreak is known as Absinthe, like we already told you in the recent post about pod2g’s update. A few hours has passed and GreenPoison has released the Mac OS X version of the tool to untether jailbreak the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 on iOS 5 and iOS 5.0.1.

Here’s the official post by GreenPoison;

Greetings, friends & jailbreakers!

We are well-aware of how very many of you, our faithful fans, have been waiting for months for this announcement, so – with no further ado, we are excited to unveil the newest addition to our GreenPois0n toolkit…
Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 4S & iPad 2 !

This release should come as no surprise to those of you who have been following pod2g’s iOS blog for the past few months. Earlier this week, you might have even wet your pants a little when you watched the video demonstration of today’s release (named Absinthe A5) and first witnessed our jailbreak working its magic to liberate both the iPhone 4S & iPad 2.

What you may not fully realize yet is just how hard the exploits in this Apple A5 jailbreak are working behind the scenes – and, though I mentioned it last week on my Twitter – what a glorious hacker’s wet dream the Absinthe A5 toolkit has ultimately evolved into!
Hacking the A5: Not Exactly a Walk in the Park

The ridiculously complex combination of exploits-within-exploits that make this iOS jailbreak possible have consumed thousands of hours of brain-power & effort from a legion of world-renowned hackers, several of whom have been working diligently on this project since the dual-core A5 processor was unveiled by Apple last March. Ten months ago, I myself was live tweeting from a tediously long line at the nearest Apple retail store, where I anxiously waited to become one of the world’s first owners (& hackers) of the newly-released iPad 2.

At that point, I don’t know if any iOS hacker anticipated how much the A5 chip would completely change the game & up the stakes. The endless war we fight to jailbreak has become more & more difficult with each new device released, and our recent battle against A5 only proved this further. After working for months with few tangible results, Chronic Dev hackers tried a new approach – we launched CDevReporter to accumulate all your devices’ crash reports, an invaluable source of information for iOS hacking & research. You answered our call-to-arms quickly & emphatically, sending us more than 10 million of these reports in less than a week. (Keep up the good work!)

Meanwhile, the iPhone 4S was released with resounding success – more than four million devices were sold in the first weekend alone. As a result, demand for an untethered A5 jailbreak grew exponentially overnight, and a mob-like mentality was adopted by many of the (usually courteous) Apple fan-kids. Suddenly, every iOS hacker found himself the target of constant clamoring – on Twitter, in our (& other) blog’s comments, in forums & tech news blurbs. Their message was loud & clear: “We want our new iPhones jailbroken, & we want it NOW!”
Introducing the 2012 iOS Hacking “Dream Team”

We finally admitted that the escalated obstacles presented by Apple’s new A5 processor would not likely be overcome by one individual or team – but all together, we should be more than able to conquer any challenges encountered. As such, a diverse group of iOS hackers all decided to set aside our personal goals & egos, relax our die-hard team loyalties, and pool our respective skill-sets, talents & exploits to form an iOS Super-Hacking “Dream Team.”

Numerous prominent iOS hackers contributed time & expertise to the project through their troubleshooting, brilliant obstacle-clearing ideas & other support. We’d like to extend special thanks to saurik & MuscleNerd, both core members of iPhone Dev Team.

Of the 4 hackers who deserve extra recognition & gratitude for completing the lion’s share of the research, development & programming of this jailbreak, 3 are members of Chronic Dev Team: myself (posixninja), pod2g & nikias. The fourth & most legendary member of our “Dream Team” is planetbeing, the globally-admired iOS hacker/developer responsible for initially porting both Linux & Android to the iPhone (among his many other contributions).

As to the amazingly innovative fusion of exploits used in this iOS jailbreak – we plan to save most of that discussion for a panel/presentation we hope to give at a conference later this year. If you want to learn more now, pod2g wrote an excellent blog post after the release of Corona, in which he describes in detail the userland & kernel exploits we used, both for the A4 iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak and as a starting point for this Absinthe A5 toolkit.

Help Advance our Ongoing iOS Research & Support the Future of Jailbreaks!
CONTRIBUTE HERE directly to Chronic Dev Team

Say “THANK YOU!” to Developers of this A5 Jailbreak for a Job Well Done!
CONTRIBUTE HERE to iOS Hacking “Dream Team”
Download GreenPois0n Absinthe Now

To jailbreak your iPhone 4S (running iOS 5.0 or either 4S version of 5.0.1**) and/or your iPad 2 (all Wi-Fi only, GSM & CDMA devices supported; must be running iOS 5.0.1**) – select one of the links below to download your Absinthe A5 untethered jailbreak. Simply unzip the file, then install on your iOS A5 mobile device with one click of a button! As always MacOSX version is being released first, and Windows and Linux versions will be released shortly after.

Windows » Coming Soon…

Mac OS X » GreenPois0n Absinthe v0.1.2-1

Linux » Coming Soon…

**NOTE: If you haven’t yet heeded the advice I gave weeks ago – before you take one step further, upgrade your firmware to iOS 5.0.1 NOW! (Unless you need an iPhone4s Unlock) Also, we don’t mean to beat you over the head with this warning, but please remember: you should not update to iOS 5.0.2 when it’s released, or you will lose your jailbreak! Bookmark our GreenPois0n blog now, and be the first to know the next time we advise our jailbreak users to safely update their iOS firmware.

As with all our previous GreenPois0n releases, should you run into any bugs in the A5 jailbreak, leave us a comment below or contact us on Twitter (via Chronic Dev Team, GreenPois0n, or directly to “Dream Team” hackers posixninja, pod2g or nikias). Even if we aren’t able to respond to your messages individually, we depend on all users to let us know about any issues you run into so that we can address them & fix the most-reported problems as quickly as possible.
Muchas Gracias

First & foremost, THANK YOU to all our loyal fans & readers for your enduring patience over the past several months. We’ve been toiling night & day in order to perform the serious hacking ninja magic required to develop the most advanced iPhone jailbreak yet – we only hope it was worth your wait! And as always, thank you for your never-ending support of Chronic Dev Team & all our GreenPois0n releases!

I also want to express my personal gratitude to:

saurik – for all your guidance & support, especially in helping us out of the sandbox, and for acting as administrator to the “Dream Team” donation fund;
Chronic-Dev, LLC – for hosting the web servers that will inevitably crash due to the sheer number of simultaneous download requests; and
finally & especially, the other “Dream Team” members – for all your expertise, dedication, cooperation & countless hours of hard work! It was a true pleasure to work closely with each of you, and without your contributions, this jailbreak would not have been possible.

Download Absinthe A5 Untethered Jailbreak Tool

If you are interested in downloading Absinthe 0.1.2-1 you can download it from the iJailbreak Downloads Section. Additionally you can use one of the download links below:

i only no 1 person with a mac and they wont let me do it ¬.¬ :( not fair ! hurry up windows

H J A Mensinga

activate your vpn in the settings
then try again

stalker

plsss hurrryyy plssss

Dennis

Both my iPad2 and 4S get the following error:

Absinthe could not open the page because the server stopped responding

I can’t turn on VPN without an error (ipad2) or it asks for a password (iPhone 4s)…

Any ideas?

Caengle1

Im getting VPN Connection error: A configuration error occurred.

Please help

Theguest

typical impatient little girl

http://twitter.com/dm247 Dennis Mueller

Both my iPad2 and 4S get the following error:

Absinthe could not open the page because the server stopped responding

I can’t turn on VPN without an error (ipad2) or it asks for a password (iPhone 4s)…

Any ideas?

Theguest

Don’t repost. You’re better than that.

Maiksksi

Windowns dowloand !!!!!

Bml Bml

Yessss jut did Jailbreak with vmware Snow Leopard, and everything goes fine from first try! Just installed SbSettings too. Thank you guys!

Theguest

I thought about grabbing a MAC VM session to do this, but I haven’t touched a mac since grade school. Want to send me your vm session? :)

Theguest

I thought about grabbing a MAC VM session to do this, but I haven’t touched a mac since grade school. Want to send me your vm session? :)

http://twitter.com/dm247 Dennis Mueller

Was not intentional. Sorry. :)

http://twitter.com/dm247 Dennis Mueller

Was not intentional. Sorry. :)

Morphiousgr

Give the guys some time!! They did a great job. Now 3-4 shots more of Absinthe for the Windows version ;)

Theguest

!!!!! daolnwod snwodniW

Theguest

!!!!! daolnwod snwodniW

Ltomlinson0621

anyone know when the windows verison should be out?

Bh

Can some please provide me a link to donate to the incredable individuals that have spent thousands of hours to provide this hack to us. I only hope others reward these folks with a donation as well.

Apec714

complaining to people who are doin this stuff for free is really pathetic be greatful they are doing it in the first place because with people like you they might just decide to keep these kinda exploits to themselves next time

Tickkee

Yes, please be “greatful.”

Bml Bml

I want to send it to you, but I think it has almost 4 Gb, do you think is worthing?

Well tried to use OSX Snow Leopard on a VM session in both windows 7 – 64 bit and windows XP – 32 bit and they both get stuck on “waiting for reboot.” Not sure how other people got around that, but it seems that since the host OS gets to see the iPhone reboot first, the VM session never gets to see it so it just sits there.

dec_onk_09

come on on windows..
its been so long too…….

Theguest

Dev Team has a command line interface out for windows. Lets just say…..CYDIA!!!!!

Wdaccache

I did it… With a windows machine and a mac VM… Thank you VMware…

http://www.facebook.com/people/Corey-Smith/1370027852 Corey Smith

EVERYBODY PAY CLOSE ATTENTION!!!! (especially Windows Users)

The CLI for Windows has already been released and I’m getting tired of seeing people hosing down all of these websites and annoying the “Dream Team” because you want a GUI. The reason they are staggering the releases for Windows and Linux is to help control the flow of traffic through their servers. If they released all of them at once…..CHAOS….. I will provide a guide (not mine) below for those who would like to attempt the jailbreak via the CLI. On the flip side if you don’t know what command prompt is then in my opinion you deserve to have to wait for a GUI and you will just have to be patient with the Dev Team as they have already sacrificed their personal lives in the process of discovering these exploits and they do not deserve to be hassled over a petty GUI.
HUUUUUUGE Thanks to @pod2g, @planetbeings, @saurik, @p0sixninja, @MuscleNerd, @xvolks, and @pimskeks (who will release the windows GUI whenever he damn well pleases). You guys are freaking MONSTERS!!!!! PLEEEEAAASE consider donating to their paypal account as they have 1000’s of hours of combined manpower invested in this.
**************************RE-POST (not my guide)***********************************

FOLLOW EVERYTHING PRECISELY and I am more than confident it will work for you too. Ready? Let’s do this.
Here’s how:

Download the file:
1) backup your iphone
2) Go onto your iphone into settings and find “Erase all content and settings”
3)
When it turns back on, set it up. Pick your language and location. DO
NOT enable location services. Put in your wifi and other stuff. Click
set up as a new phone. Do not input apple ID, click skip this step. Do
not turn on siri or diagnostic reporting, its all irrelevant as you will
go back to your backed up settings anyway.
4)Plug your phone in via usb.

On computer:
1) extract all files, move the cinject_0.4.3 folder to your C drive.
2)press the windows key, type “cmd” right click “Run as administrator”
3) Input this directly into command line without quotes:

4) Your phone should unlock and go to the VPN screen.
5) Click Install, approve the pop-up box. DO NOT PUT IN A PASSWORD. Just click next.

Put phone down, go back to computer.

6) In your command line, type
“cinject.exe -j payloads” Press Enter.

If
you have followed all the steps to this point ,everything should be
fine, it will make a backup quickly and restore the backup. If it gives
you an error, theres a good chance you didn’t follow my instructions.
try again.

At the end of the process it will say something like input cinject -w to watch for log and toggle VPN.

7) Input what it tells you, exactly how it says to. I forget exactly what it says but whatever.
8)
Your command screen will go crazy as it processes and executes
commands. Leave it be for about 5 seconds. When everything slows down a
bit, on your iphone go to VPN and turn it ON.
9) Expect more crazy
commands to fly, ignore any error messages, DO NOT PANIC. If you are
impatient or something, go downstairs to your kitchen and get a glass of
water.

Once again, if you have followed all of the instructions
to this point you should not receive any errors. Your iphone will do
everything it is supposed to and at the end of the command line it will
say something like “iPhone fairplayed”. or something like that.

10)
When it reboots, unlock it and go to second page. SURPISE! Cydia. Open
cydia, let it do its thing and it will restart your iphone when its
done.
11) In the meantime, close your command window, after your iphone restarts, open itunes.
12)
Let it restore from your backup that you shouldve made if you followed
my instructions. It will reboot and install all of your stuff as you sit
there with a big grin on your face.
13) While your stuff installs,
don’t be an ingrateful bastard and donate some money to the dream team
for their amazing and dedicated efforts. Or go to hell.

Theguest

how did you do this without getting stuck on the “waiting for reboot”
I JB’d mine with the CLI, but I am still curious.

anyone know how to make cydia part of the payload like my first ipad 1 jailbreak because i messed up my ipad2 wifi with a stupid app on ios 4.3.3 and found out that day i could update to ios 5.01 and jailbreak and rather than fixing the problum first i asumed it would fix itself during the update but no it didnt so now my mac address is spoofed on a non jailbroken ipad2 5.0.1 so it cant get net till i delete the varibles that controll the mac spoof but i cant get root access without jailbreaking first and cant jailbreak without internet is their some workaround i could do like making it install cydia during the jailbreak process or a non jb root access i can do

Navedkalhoro

i Hve iphone 4s, how can i unlck this? any idea, its locked with voda Uk

Bml Bml

For the moment, the only solution tu unlock is with IMEI unlock, no software or hardware tools for the moment, maybe in the future.

Ajmiilanh

I had to install the jailbreak probemas for my iphone 2 with Absinthe Greenpoison version V 0.1.2.1 for Windows. begins when preparing jailbreak data, a window that says Absinthe to dejdo of working demo and windos seeks the solution to the problem, but fails. I can do any suggestions?

B Almasri

thxxxxxx

Hamood A J

how to download absanthe

Hell_h2000

is that only for iphone4s and ipad2 …..i mean is that allowed for iphone4 too

Jess29889

is it true that iphone 4s are not supported

Biffo872002

When I connect my iPhone 4S running 5.1 absinthe keeps saying device not supported? I turned off Passcode lock and VPN but to no luck? Any idea whats happening?

It stands: ”The attached device is not supported.” when I plug in my iphone 4s
Help me ..

Dorabong

I CANT OPEN THE ABSINTHE APP T_T

The message says: Cannot Open Absinthe
Absinthe could not be opened.
The error was: “The URL can’t be shown”.

Bidsar K

Hello i have an iPad 2, i am already on iOS 5.0.1. I wanted to jailbreak it using Absinthe and would like to know till which point internet connection is needed. Is an internet connection needed at the last step when safari opens for a short while?

James

Y when i download
absanthe
v0.3 for Windows to jailbreak my iphone 4s ios 5.1 this message come out (sorry the attached device is not supported?)

http://Michaelschnier.tumblr.com Michael Schnier

The jailbreak doesn’t work for the iPhone 4S for iOS 5.1. You need to downgrade to 5.0 or 5.0.1.